You know, I live in L.A., and it's interesting-- whenevr there is a riot, or unrest- what have you- those areas, whether they were burned yesterday, or 30 years ago- are still desolate today. It's not like people rush in to rebuild. So if downtown L.A. burns a little bit more, it's just going to stay that way for a few centuries.
No one has any loyalty to the country anymore. there are plenty of people that will smile at you when you walk down the street, and say "hola", whoops, I mean "hello", but as soon as they see an in, it's burning and looting. What did Cal Thomas say? Out of many- many?
During WWII lots of Japanese were rounded up because they were thought to be potential combatants. These days-- who would we have to lock up/deport. Not a few I imagine- and not Japanese.
Never once did anyone go -- golly gee, we burned out neighborhood business because they were owned by white men and now we don't have any local services...
If that wasn't enough, people were afraid to drive through there so they took the freeways around to get to LAX and any business they had left was practically starved out by lack of customers.
After the riots in the early 90's people were even less inclined to go into the neighborhoods and spend money -- until a year ago when Walmart was behind a huge proposed shopping center with resturants, jobs, etc... and who comes marching in telling them to vote NO on this -- Jessie, Al, Maxine, etc... and did they vote for the jobs and improving the neighborhood -- no! They listened to their annointed leader(s) and voted it down.